Jochen Arfert

Joachim Arfert

(b. 1930, Germany)

Jochen Arfert worked as a decoration painter from 1945 to 1949. From 1951, he studied Applied Arts in Berlin for four years. He was in the team of the East-German magazine Mosaik since the first issue 1955 until his retirement in 1995. He was an colorist, but in the first years he made many of the "painted", outlineless background illustations and scientific illustrations for the comic.